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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63387

Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has an off-by-one stack buffer overflow in evdns.c when dnsname_t...

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Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has an off-by-one stack buffer overflow in evdns.c when dnsname_to_labels formats a name-bearing DNS record at the end of the 64 KB stack buffer allocated by evdns_server_request_format_response. The final-label check permits j plus label_len plus one to equal buf_len, after which the terminating null byte is written to buf[buf_len]. A crafted DNS server response containing PTR, CNAME, MX, NS, or SOA data can trigger the one-byte out-of-bounds write and crash or corrupt the process. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.12-stable-8+deb12u1"}]}]
Debian:13 libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.13-stable-1~deb13u1"}]}]
Debian:14 libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.13-stable-1"}]}]

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